MIKAEL PASSARE IN MEMORIAM

My mathematical brother Ragnar Sigurðsson took the above photos
of Mikael, his mathematical nephew, in 2008. The one to the left
shows him lecturing at Institut Mittag-Leffler in the spring of 2008;
in the one on the right he is at the Nordan meeting in Mariehamn,
2008. The photos above and those below taken by him are made
available with Ragnar's permission.

Mikael Passare was born in Västerås, Sweden, on 1959 January 01.
He died from a sudden cardiac arrest in Oman in the evening of
2011 September 15.

He was a professor at Stockholm University; earlier he was
Department Head and Chairman of the Swedish National Committee for
Mathematics. At the time of his death he was President of the Swedish
Mathematical Society.

More about his life can be found in the obituaries in English and
Swedish that I have written.

1. Texts in English

1.1. Obituary in English: Mikael
Passare 1959—2011 (23 pages; with references and a list of
his publications and seminar talks).

1.2. An abridged obituary in English: Mikael Passare 1959—2011 (4 pages; without
references). Published in The Newsletter of the European
Mathematical Society, June 2012, Issue 84, 12–15.

1.3. His mathematical research and some questions he left behind
form the topic of a paper entitled
Questions inspired by Mikael
Passare's mathematics (19 pages). Accepted on 2012 August 20 for
publication in Afrika Matematika. Published online 2012
October 27.

1.4. The International Science Programme (ISP) celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary on 2011 September 26. About two hundred persons
participated, among them many from Africa. Mikael was a member of the
Board of ISP, and the celebration started with a presentation of him
and his activtity for mathematics in Africa. Two texts were made
available, a longer one and a
shorter one.

2. Texts in Swedish

2.1. On 2011 September 28, Tom Britton organized a meeting at
Stockholm University to honor Mikael. There were between 140 and 150
persons there. Eight of them gave short speeches to honor Mikael Passare.

2.2. There is a short obituary in
Swedish, submitted to four newspapers and published in somewhat
shortened form in Dagens Nyheter 2011 October 14 with a correction
2011 October 15, and with almost no changes in Svenska Dagbladet
2011 October 16.

2.3. The Swedish Mathematical Society published an obituary in Swedish,
Mikael Passare 1959—2011, on
2011 October 25 (19 pages).